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Jockeys oppose Lloyd Williams’ call for whip ban
The Victorian Jockeys Association will not call for racing authorities to ban the use of the whip, after leading thoroughbred owner Lloyd Williams declared the...
Williams, who has won the Melbourne Cup as an owner on a record six occasions, most recently with Rekindling in 2017, told the ABC’s 7.30 program that whipping horses needed to end.
- Anthony Colangelo
- WAtoday
“The industry now needs to realise whips need to be withdrawn very soon.
They should be a world leader and be the first to do it,” Williams said.
However Victorian Jockeys Association president Matt Hyland, a…